of countermeasures. why did you not say those things? say those things? that is not howl would characterise say those things? that is not howl would characterise the say those things? that is not howl would characterise the situation. i would characterise the situation. the first thing is that i am not confident that by this cabinet meeting, i will have known that sage had concluded that containment was lost. and in fact, i don t think that i was told that for a number of days after. as i said, i m not exactly sure when i was told that. but this meeting was the morning after the minutes of sage coming to that conclusion. secondly, at this point in the department and nphet and the health service, we were working extremely hard to prepare for the pandemic. i had commissioned the action plan and work was under way on that and phe. we were attempting and pushing phe to build the testing system and all of the other things we were directly responsible for. as i say, we were
information and advice. we often shared papers and they had asked us about the circuit breaker idea and we sent them the papers, i have no idea whether that is what triggered them to take action or not. just above we them to take action or not. just above we see them to take action or not. just above we see an them to take action or not. just above we see an extract we looked at earlier, apparently the cabinet office are now cautious about putting things to sage, because we publish all. this happened at this time of increased tension. you said you weren t convinced that anything ever came of that concern. did you think at this time you, there were things you might have been asked about but weren t because of this caution? i been asked about but weren t because of this caution? of this caution? i suspect, but i can t remember, of this caution? i suspect, but i can t remember, that of this caution? i suspect, but i can t remember, that i - of this caution? i suspect,
air bags and cushion them with air bags and land it on the surface. that was the tried and trued method. but this rover is the size of a car, 2,000 pounds. it s too big to do it any other way than what they re going to attempt in 36 hours. never before happen. and what they will do is hit the atmosphere at 13,200 miles an hour. they ll begin to slowdown. they ll be maneuvering through the atmosphere and then at some point will deploy a parra chute which will further slow the vehicle but not enough to get it on the ground safely. at that point they will fire some rockets on the spacecraft and it will begin to line itself up with the martian surface then they ll use a sky crane where the rover will actually dissend from the bottom of the landing vehicle and the two will dissend on the surface together. then they will fire off the other part of the vehicle that they no longer need. so that will all take place in a matter of seven minutes, from the time they hit the top of the at